Electronic Design

Low-Power Microcontroller Combines With An FPGA Or PLD

Rated at 30 MIPS at a frequency of 40 MHz, the Field Programmable System Level Integration Circuit (FPSLIC) combines an 8-bit microcontroller with over 50 kgates of ...
Electronic Design

PLD Family Bridges FPGA And CPLD Needs

These programmable-logic devices combine CPLD flash configurability with an FPGA lookup-table architecture for lower-cost, logic-intensive designs. Applications traditionally supported by high-density ...
Design-Reuse

How the FPGA Came To Be, Did General Electric invent the PLD and EPLD in 1971?

My long running series titled "How the FPGA Came To Be" (referenced below) chronicles the development of programmable logic starting with programmable diode matrices developed and marketed by Harris ...